InfoPoint conference: A Decade On - Lessons Learnt from the Implementation of the African Union’s Agenda on Land
28 November 2022, 12:30 - 14:00 CET
InfoPoint and online
Much has been said about the African Union’s Agenda on Land, but what progress has been made so far? This session seeks to answer this and more as it presents the results of an assessment study on land policy in Africa, highlighting the progress made, challenges met, potential areas for work and lessons learnt.
In 2009, Heads of State issued the African Union’s Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges. Together with the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa, the Nairobi Declaration on Large-Scale Land-Based Investments, the Guiding Principles on Large-Scale Land-Based Investments, and other decisions and tools, this declaration is the basis for the African Union’s Agenda on Land. It aims at promoting improved governance in the land sector through the development, implementation and monitoring of comprehensive land policy.
EBCAM attended Team Europe Partnerships Portal (TEPP) conference
InfoPoint: Team Europe Partnerships Portal (TEPP)
European Commission, DG for IInternational Partnerships (INTPA)
Wednesday 16 November 2022
On Wednesday 16 November 2022, EBCAM attended in person the conference “Introduction to the Team Europe Partnership Portal (TEPP)” organized by the Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission.
This new digital tool, the Team Europe Partnerships Portal (TEPP), is a new platform that will support partner countries in finding innovative and effective tools to achieve their Sustainable Development Goals, and build inclusive and sustainable societies among all Team Europe actors.
DEVELOPMENT2030
16-17 November 2022
BRUSSELS EXPO
DEVELOPMENT2030 – HOW IMPORTANT IS THE COMMERCIALISATION OF DEVELOPMENT IN A WORLD OF NEW CHALLENGES?
With an ever-increasing pressure to ensure the global public and governments worldwide continue to support overseas development assistance, it is imperative for the international community to adapt to the changing landscape if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Our Development2030 event will consider how best we can do this, through identifying the key existing and emerging players, and analysing their role in creating long-term impact for low- and middle income countries.
EBCAM attends the Business Roundtable on Raw Materials
Business Roundtable on Raw Materials
European Commission’s Directorate General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA)
Le Plaza Hotel Brusselsm Thursday 17 November
EBCAM attended the Business Roundtable on Raw Materials on Thursday 17 November from 14:15-17:30 organised the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA). The event took place at Le Plaza Hotel Brussels (Bld Adolphe Max 118-126, 1000 Brussels) and online.
The Business roundtable, organised as part of the 7th EU Raw Materials Week 2022, gathered global public and private stakeholders around recent policies and initiatives in the field of raw materials.
COP27 European Union Side Events
7-18.11.2022
Sharm-el-Sheikh, Sud de Sinaï, Égypte and online
These events are part of the EU Pavilion programme in the framework of COP27.
Some relevant sessions to Africa:
EU response to food crises and support to African resilience: Agro-ecological approaches and the Great Green Wall- 8 November 2022
Resilient agriculture in Africa : EU and partners in action- 12 November 2022
Building a stronger Africa-Europe cooperation on ocean-climate action- 15 November 2022
High-level ministerial event: Joint Europe-Africa action on adaptation and resilience- 16 November 2022
Dialogue with EU Businesses on Economic Partnership Agreements
Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (CEST)
Online
The dialogue will be an occasion to discuss opportunities, constraints, and needs that European Businesses face when investing in / trading with EPA countries, particularly in Africa. The scope of this dialogue is for DG TRADE to grasp how to better support EU Businesses operating in EPAs regions. In the attached agenda you will find some input questions that will be used to guide the discussion.
Digital technologies fighting misinformation on the internet
Date: 30 June 2022, 12:00-13:30 (CEST)
Online
In recent months, African countries have fallen prey to foreign misinformation with enormous consequences on their political stability. In that context, the EU has partnered with a wide array of partners, including start-ups and projects like the Digital Enquirer Kit to counter disinformation campaigns, which we will have the chance and opportunity to welcome during our Info Point.
In the context of INTPA's work as regards international development and cooperation, misinformation and disinformation have become an even bigger challenge since the beginning of the pandemic. Indeed, the increased digitalisation that has characterised the last two years, as well as the digital shift undergone by some of INTPA's partner countries have heightened their vulnerability to disinformation campaigns, as well as the strategic influence of actors such as Russia.
SME Crisis Response Webinar 7 - Commodities and Raw Materials in Africa and New Opportunities for African and European Enterprises
Date: 7 July 2022, 10:00 (CEST)
The issues presented in this webinar will tackle the changing scenario of the importance of African commodities from the end of the COVID-19 crisis until the current situation of Russia’s aggression on Ukraine.
On one side, we have the growing fear of increasing food prices, famines and food insecurity, and on the other hand the awareness of the importance of African local goods. Different case scenarios are being analysed in order to overcome this crisis, depending on short, medium or long-term goals in which the best-case scenario would be to avoid food dependency.
Another important topic is the role of European enterprises and their new opportunities from the economic point of view.
The war in Ukraine, global food and nutrition security and country owned food systems
Date: 23 June 2022, 12:30-13:30 (CEST)
Online
The war in Ukraine has exacerbated a cost-of-living crisis and poses major threats to global food and nutrition security and country owned food systems. Marjeta Jager (DDG INTPA) and Gerda Verburg (UN ASG and Scaling Up Nutrition Movement coordinator) will address the challenges and opportunities of high food prices and make the case for an integrated approach necessary to reverse negative implications on dietary intake and thereby nutritional status.
Strengthening environmental governance through South South cooperation
Date: 24 June 2022, 11:00-12:30 (CEST)
Online
EU support to multilateral environmental agreements
One of the tangible expressions of science-policy interface at work are the multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). They offer the best hope for multilateralism to deliver. But how do they deliver? What does the EC do to support these MEAs? What key lessons does such work offer for better environmental management and governance? How does this promote South-South Cooperation? Come and find some answers from the ACP MEAs 3 programme that the Commission is currently supporting.